. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Birds; Birds. 428 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. IX. Adult: Crown and back, brownish gray, feathers tipped with rufous; a ring around the neck, lores, and a patch on the breast, black; forehead, white; throat and spot behind the eye and a band around the neck, white; lower breast and belly, white; tail coverts and rump, bright rufous; tail, rufous and gray, tipped with black and white; bill, black. Length, ; wing, ; tarsus, ; bill, .75. This species is a common summer resident in Wisconsin and Illinois, breed- ing in suitable
. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Birds; Birds. 428 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. IX. Adult: Crown and back, brownish gray, feathers tipped with rufous; a ring around the neck, lores, and a patch on the breast, black; forehead, white; throat and spot behind the eye and a band around the neck, white; lower breast and belly, white; tail coverts and rump, bright rufous; tail, rufous and gray, tipped with black and white; bill, black. Length, ; wing, ; tarsus, ; bill, .75. This species is a common summer resident in Wisconsin and Illinois, breed- ing in suitable localities. It arrives in March and remains until cold weather sets in. It breeds in April and May. The nest is merely a depression in the ground with, at times, a slight lining of grass. The eggs are usually four, pyriform in shape, dull white, blotched and spotted with chocolate brown, more numer- ous at the larger end, and measure x Killdeer Plover. Genus iEGIALITIS Boie. 137. .^gialitis semipalmata Bonap. Semipalmated Plover. Local name: Ring-neck. Distr.: Arctic and subarctic America, breeding from Labrador northward, migrating south to the West Indies, Brazil, Peru, and the Galapagos Islands, in winter. Adult in summer: Forehead, white, suc- ceeded by a band of black; rest of head, back, and wings, ashy gray; a dull stripe of blackish passing from the bill under the eye to the sides of the neck; a small patch of white back of the eye; a broad band of black on the breast; rest of under parts, white; throat, white, extending around the neck and joining at the back in a very narrow stripe; secondaries, tipped with white; bill, black, orange at the base; a bright orange ring Semipalmated Plover. around .the eye; toes webbed at Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cor
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